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Ask: Are you saying that no form exists for God?

…‘What seems to happen
in the universe of form has no effect on God (Reality) whatsoever. So Dahmer
and Mother Teresa are not equally loved by God. Both are equally unreal. Neither
exists for God. Realizing this is true forgiveness.’ … Perhaps it is my ego
that feels alarm, or perhaps I don't quite understand the statement. Are
you saying that no form exists for God and that we are connected to the True
Being only through our true self (which is neither our body nor
ego). Perhaps I am clinging to my childhood Christian belief that nothing
goes unnoticed by God and something to the effect that God knows how many hairs
are on everyone's heads. If none of this form life exists for God, what
is the point of it all?...” - MI

You read
it correctly. God (as A Course in
Miracles uses the word) is Formless Being. Only God is real. In God there
is only God (the meaning of “Oneness”). So God knows only God. This means that
God only knows God in you. Form is not of God and is unknown to God.

God,
being All, must contain the idea of Its Own opposite. But being All, God cannot
have an opposite. So the idea of the opposite-of-God is undone as soon as it is
thought. It has no purpose. It simply is. But what it is, is a meaningless,
impossible idea. This is why ACIM calls it an “illusion”. And overcoming your
belief in this illusion is what ACIM is for.

The part
of God’s Mind where this idea seems to occur is what ACIM calls the “Son of
God”. The Son of God’s mind is never actually apart from God. So it is split
between God and not-God. Since God is timeless, limitless, and formless,
not-God is time-bound, limited form. Into this universe of form the Son of God
projects billions of versions of itself. Each seemingly-individual mind is
split between God (Christ Mind/Holy Spirit) and not-God (ego thought system).
As a seemingly-individual mind you project from ego meaning onto meaningless
form. This makes it seem real to you. This makes it seem to have the
(unconscious) purpose of keeping you apart from God. Your belief in form as
reality is the source of guilt in your mind. But because the universe of form
has no intrinsic meaning you can choose instead to give the experience of form
another purpose for you. You can choose to use it to lead your mind back to its
Reality in God instead of away from It. If you make this choice (you do not
have to) then the Holy Spirit (the teaching aspect of your Christ Mind) will
guide you in this process.

As a
student of A Course in Miracles you
must question every spiritual, religious, and secular belief you have ever had
about truth and reality (what ACIM calls “God”). Some of these may be treasured
beliefs and at first you may grieve to lose them. But when you look at them
closely you will see that guilt is hidden in them. Then you will be relieved to
release (forgive) them.

The ego
is just a thought system in your mind. It does not have feelings. The alarm
that you experience reading the above statement is your own. You are
experiencing the shock and fear that is common to new students of A Course in Miracles when they begin to
get what ACIM says. So your alarm is actually a good sign! It indicates that on
some level you are getting it. This is the beginning of your undoing of your
belief in the ego as your identity. It is uncomfortable but it will pass as you
realize how the awareness that only God is real sets you free from guilt and
fear.

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